Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-04-08
MR. AND MRS. BOWSER
BY MRS. BOwsER.

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me change my name to Mrs. Bow
ser. was full of trust and love
and romance, and | looked upon
Mr.. Bowser as God. One of his
favorite pastimes was to place me
where the lamp light fell upon my
hair and to address me as his gold
en-haired angel. Poor silly girl
that | was, thought it would al
wavs last One evening after we
had been married five or six weeks
| took my stand under the gas and
asked him if bis angel was as dear
to him as ever.
"IIumphw he egrowled, as he look
ed me oyer.
"But won't you praise my golden
hair:'
"Golden carrots, Mrs. Bowser )!
fl had such a mop of carrotty
hair on my head as you possess I'd
90 hide 1t away in a barrel"
/ "Then you have ceased to love
mel7
"Ceased nothing have simply
got tired of all this boshy nonsense,
! and | propose to settle down to the
realities of life
During our cOurtship Mr. Bowser
delighted to read to me from book
of poems and he insisted on hold
ing one of my hands while he read.
The second evening we we're in our
own house l brought out Longiel-
low and sat down beside HIM and
took his hand.
"What are you paving around
me forw he asked, as he looked
up.
81 want my deary to read to
me-"
"Well, your deary has got some
thing else to do! Pm reading up
on bread and butter instead of
poetry. Please keep your paws at
home
You used to read such lovely
poetry to me.
"That was because was a
foolm
l went over to the other side Of
the room and cried, and he let me
weep away for a straight hour by
the clock before he observed:
"Now, Mrs. Bowser, if yOu have
got through sniveling we'll 90 down
stairs and measure that coal-bin
and figure up the cubic feet"
During our cOurtships we used
to take long walks in the cleaning,
and though | was often so tired
that ! could hardly drag one leg
after the other, Mr.. BOwser would
insist on dragging me around. lie
was always quoting something
about "gloriOus Luna and "silver
stars" and "IIeaven'S arch,' and
one night as we sat upon the door
step he put his arm around me and
said he could sit there forever and
aye. 1t was hardly a month after
our marriage that 1 put on my hal
one evening and asked HIM if he
didn't want to wander out FOL
awhile and watch the silent night
shut down.
"Td like TO see myself slOshine
arOund'with this Internal corn on
my toe y he replied.
Mr.. BOwser, there was a time
when you'd have walked all nigh
With a corn on every toe"
"That shows what an idiot a mar
can make of himself"
"YOu once said that we'd always
walk hand.in.hand in life's gloam
ing"
81 don't believe it l know l wa'
% soft, but / don't believe l was as
. mushy as thatw
"But you certainly did"
"Well, I'll take it all back now
We've got something else to dr
besides squeezing paws and sighinl
about the cleaning. Durn tn,
b g,oaming, Mrs. BOwserl Th,
whole caboodle of it wouldn't bu!
a peck OF potatoes 1t would looI
more sensible for you to wande
out into the kitchen and see hOy
); many tramps the cook is feeding a
= my expense"
Two months before our marriag
I got hard cold and had chill
and fever. 1t was impossible Il
keep Mr.. Bowser away from th
house, and upon several OCCASION
> he hung over me and murmured;
81 pray heaven to spare you
precious life # you should di
life would be a dreary blank to mt